Wednesday, November 26, 2008

1582] Wedding Bells: Young Will Shakespeare having already asked Anne Hathaway, "wouldst thou taketh thine hand in holy matrimony" and gotten a "yea, merrily", walks down the aisle with Anne as Bard and Bardess tie the knot poetically (11/28)...1940] Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz conga down the aisle to a latin beat (11/30)...1960] Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee become America's favorite married couple when they swing down the aisle (12/1). Sadly they will divorce in 1967...1982] Miles Davis and Cecily Tyson tie the knot in an on again/off again marriage until Davis' death (11/26)...1993] Another odd couple work their way down the aisle as James Carville and Mary Matalin marry (11/26)...

1789] 1st Thanksgiving: A day of Thanksgiving is set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution (11/26)...

1910] A New York original: The original Pennsylvania Station opens to the public, where the 8th Avenue Post Office is now located. One day that location may house a new Penn Station (11/27)...

1925] Debuted on this date: The longest running live music show debuts on WSM Nashville when host George Dewey Hay invites an 83-year old Civil War veteran to play fiddle for an hour. The 'WSM Barn Dance' begins (11/28). In 1927 its name is changed to the "Grand Ole Opry". Willie Nelson will make his debut 39 years to the date that the 'Barn Dance' debuted (1964)...1939] New York's LaGuardia Airport begins operations as a plane from Chicago lands at 12:01 a.m. (11/30)...1942] "Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman debuts at the Hollywood Theater in Manhattan (11/26)...1948] "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" debuts on NBC-TV (11/29)...

1934] A Thanksgiving Day tradition begins: The Detroit Lions begin an annual NFL tradition, dropping a 19-16 decision to da Bearsss. It was the first NFL game aired on national radio. Brent Mus-sorry, Graham McNamee did the play-by-play (11/29). A Lions win over Tennessee would be Detroit's first win this season...

1942] Down in flames: A devastating and deadly fire destroys the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston, taking nearly 500 lives (11/28)...

1948] Get the picture?: The first Polaroid camera is sold (11/28). Today that camera would be worth a fortune...

1978] City Hall massacre: San Francisco mayor George Moscone and City Hall Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist, are shot to death inside City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White (11/27). Sean Penn plays Milk ina soon-to-be released movie of the event...

1981] "Happy Trails": Natalie Wood drowns in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island at the age of 43. Natalie who was with husband R.J. (Wagner) and Christopher Walken, could not swim (11/29)...1986] Leading man Cary Grant dies of a stroke at 82 (11/29)...1994] 1960s war protester Jerry Rubin dies two weeks after being hit by a car. Rubin was 56 (11/28)...1996] After performing on stage, Tiny Tim collapses and dies from congestive heart failure at 71 (11/30)...2001] Beatle George Harrison loses his battle with cancer at 58 (11/29)...2007] Washington Redskins free safety Sean Taylor, 24, is murdered in his Miami home (11/27)...2007] Daredevil motorcycle rider Evel Knievel passes away from a terminal lung disease at 69 (11/30)...

2003] A presidential turkey delivery: George Bush plays commander-in-chief and brings Thanksgiving turkey to our troops in a clandestine trip to Iraq (11/27)...For more on November 26 -30th: C L I C K:

1947] Hollywood 10: Movie studio executives meeting in New York agree to blacklist the "Hollywood 10" who were cited a day earlier and jailed for contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee...

1963] Laid to rest: The body of President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery...

1980] No mas, no mas: Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Roberto Duran for the welterweight crown after Duran pleads "no mas, no mas" in the 8th round, ending the fight...

1986] An affair to remember: The Iran-Contra affair erupts as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese reveal that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels...

1999] Elian gets his 15 minutes: 6-year old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez is rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. The saga of Elian begins...

2002] Colors of the rainbow follow: President Bush signs legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and appoints Tom Ridge to be its head...

2003] Guilty as charged: Yemen arrests Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, a top al-Qaida member suspected of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. Al-Ahdal is later convicted and sentenced to 37 months in prison. Who was the judge, Lance Ito??? For more on November 25th: C L I C K:

Friday, November 21, 2008

1877] Talking Machine: Thomas A. Edison announces the invention of the phonograph or as he calls it, his "talking machine." (11/21)...

1889] Jukebox Saturday Night every night: The first jukebox goes into service at the Palais Royal Saloon in San Francisco. Owned by developer Louis T. Glass, the box contains an Edison tinfoil phonograph with 4 listening tubes. A nickel bought a few minutes of music. The jukebox took in a whopping $1,000 in 6 months (11/23)...

1963] A day we'd all like to forget but never will: John Fitzgerald Kennedy is gunned down in Dallas. A day we always remember what we were doing at the time. I was recording a Canada Dry spot at WMID, Atlantic City. LBJ is sworn in as our next president (11/22)...

1980] Up in flames: A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas kills 87 (11/21)...

1982] Wedding Bells: Joni Mitchell marries her bass player Larry Klein and then paves paradise on her honeymoon (11/21)...1983] New York Rangers star Ron Greschner checks model Carol Alt into the matrimony boards. Greschner goes to the penalty box in 1996 (11/21)...1987] Demi Moore and Bruce Willis rock down the aisle. They divorce in 2000 when Demi discovers where Ashton Kutcher lives. She robs his cradle in 2005 (11/21)...

1984] Hail Mary: Doug Flutie connects with roomie Gerard Phelan and Boston College defeats Miami 47-45 in one of the greatest college football games of all-time (11/23) Bernie Kosar was the Miami QB...

2006] Spy snuffing: Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko dies in London from radiation poisoning after making a deathbed statement blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin (11/23)...For more on November 21 -23: C L I C K:

Thursday, November 20, 2008

1928] Debuted on this date: The Boston Bruins lose to Montreal 1-0 as the Boston Garden makes its debut...

1947] Wedding Bells: Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey. Celebrating their 61st anniversary, the Duke in addition to being known as the current queen's husband is officially known as her "consort" or as the Duke puts it, "I felt like I'd been turned into an amoeba."...

1960] Knocked into Monday: Frank Gifford is leveled by the Eagles Chuck Bednarik in a blind-sided hit that will wind up ending the career of the Giants star running back. The Eagles clinch the Eastern Conference title. As a reward Gifford will wind up with Kathie Lee...

1982] Adding insult to injury: In the most bizarre ending of any football game, California beats Stanford 25-20 on a 5-lateral, 55-yard kickoff return that goes into the Cardinal band, standing in the end zone...

1983] The night of "The Day After": An estimated 100 million viewers watch the controversial ABC-TV movie, "The Day After" depicting a nuclear holocaust...

1985] A Geneva treat: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet for the first time as they begin their summit in Geneva...

1998] A Starr is born: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr lays out his evidence against President Bill Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee...

2001] MVP...MVP...MVP...MVP: Barry Bonds wins his 4th MVP award (he'll win 3 more). Wasn't this the year they said Bonds started using the 'clear cream'???

2004] Fight Night: In one of sports ugliest days, after a fight breaks out on the floor, Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Pacers charge into the stands and fight with fans during an NBA game in Detroit. Officials end the Pacers' 97-82 win with 45.9 ticks left. Fines and suspensions follow. Fan John Green who tossed his drink at Artest, was banned for life in Detroit and hefty fines are levied at Artest, Jackson and others...For more on November 19th: C L I C K:

1978] The horror of Jonestown: People's Temple leader Jim Jones forces his followers to commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit-flavored concoction. Only about a dozen escape. The final death toll: 913, including 276 children. Jones is fatally shot in the head...

1987] Pink slips are on the way: CBS Inc. agrees to sell its record division to SONY Corporation for about $2 billion...

1990] Wedding Bells: Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall tie the knot in Bali. They will have 2 children during their 9 year marriage which breaks up after allegations that Mick fathered a child with Brazilian model Luciana Morad. 2006] Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are married in Italy...

1999] Guilty as charged: A jury in Jasper (TX) convicts Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., but spare him the death penalty...

2002] A new call for arms inspection: U.N. arms inspectors return to Iraq after a four-year hiatus. They call on Saddam Hussein's government to cooperate with their search for weapons of mass destruction. You know the rest of this story...

2003] Right to marry: The Massachusetts Supreme Court Judicial Court rules 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry...For more on November 18th: C L I C K:

Monday, November 17, 2008

1956] A Hollywood ending: Jim Brown finishes his college career at Syracuse by running for 6 touchdowns and kicking 7 extra points in a 61-7 massacre of Colgate...

1968] Heidi Ho: NBC-TV switches from an exciting Jets-Oakland game to "Heidi". Here's what we didn't see: The Raiders score 2 TD's in 9 seconds to hold on to a 43-32 win over the Jets. The final score is shown in a crawl over, what else ? "Heidi"...

1973] I'm not a crook: President Richard Nixon tells an AP managing editors meeting in Orlando (FL) that "people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." In front of a news organization's meeting ? Nice timing Mr. President...

1985] Debuted on this date: Howard Stern on K-Rock (WXRK)...

1997] The Joe Gibbs Academy: To graduate, you get elected to the Hall of Fame and then come back. NHL great Mario Lemieux gets inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame and then returns to play and eventually get into ownership of the Pittsburgh Penguins...

2003] Guilty as charged: John Allen Muhammad is convicted of two counts of capital murder in the Washington (D.C.)-area sniper shootings. He is awaiting execution in Virginia...

2003] This I swear: Action actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as the 38th Governor of California. Just call him 'The Governator'...

2006] Kramer goes off: Former 'Seinfeld' star Michael Richards unleashes a barrage of racial slurs during a stand-up routine at the Laugh Factory...

2006] 'Happy Trails': Hall of Fame college football coach Bo Schembechler dies at 77...For more on November 17th: CLICK:

Friday, November 14, 2008

1889] Whoa Nellie: New York World reporter Nellie Bly a.k.a. Elizabeth Cochrane begins an attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. Bly does it in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes in January and records a new song called "Around the World in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes" (11/14)...

1926] Debuted on this date: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) debuts with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network boadcast is a 4-hour special featuring live big band music from the Waldorf Astoria (11/15)...

1959] The birth of The Pats: William "Billy" Sullivan Jr. and a group of Boston businessmen is awarded the 8th and final franchise in the American Football League (AFL). The Boston Patriots are born (11/16)...

1960] "Happy Trails": Clark Gable dies of a heart attack at 59 (11/16)...1961] House speaker Sam Rayburn is the victim of cancer at 79 (11/16)...

1967] MVP x 3: The Red Sox' Carl Yastrzemski wins the AL MVP in the best individual season performance by a player I've ever seen - this includes watching Mantle & Maris in New York. Yaz wins the Triple Crown (batting average, home runs & runs batted in) title. No one has done it since (11/15)...

1972] Wedding Bells: Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner Capt. Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey (11/14). They divorce in 1992 and the Princess will re-marry...1981] Luke marries Laura on "General Hospital" before a TV audience of 16 million viewers (11/16)...1987] Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet rock down the aisle (11/16). They separate in 1990 and divorce in 1993...1996] Michael Jackson and mother-for-hire Deborah Rowe make it official (11/14)...1998] Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman marry but there's some debate over who wore the bridal gown (11/14). The marriage ends in 9 days. So what took so long???

1986] It's a family affair: The Doubleday Publishing Company agrees to sell the Mets to Nelson Doubleday & Fred Wilpon for $80.7 million (11/14). The publishing company bought the team for a then-record $21.1 million in 1980. Citibank bought the naming rights for Citi Field, which opens in 2009 for $20 million a year for 20 years...

1993] Guilty as charged: A judge in Mineola (LI) sentences Joey Buttafuocco to 6 months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher who shot and wounded Joey's wife Mary Jo (11/15)...

Thursday, November 13, 2008

1789] Death and Taxes: Benjamin Franklin writes in a letter to a friend, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"...

1942] 18 with a bullet: The minimum draft age is lowered from 21 to 18...

1960] Wedding Bells: Sammy Davis Jr. and Swedish actress May Britt walk down the aisle. The pair will stay in wedded bliss for 8 years...

1968] Premiered on this date: "Yellow Submarine", the animated movie...1997] The Disney musical "The Lion King" opens on Broadway...

1974] "Happy Trails": Karen Silkwood, 28, a technician and union activist from Oklahoma who inspired a movie of her life, is killed in a suspicious car crash...

1979] Vote for the "Gipper": Former California Governor Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination while visiting New York...

1979] 'Chocolate Thunder': 76er Darryl Dawkins shatters a fiberglass backboard doing a monster dunk in Kansas City and starts a new fad that provides ESPN with about a million 'Sports Update' show opens...

1993] Top of the charts: Top-ranked Florida State and #2 Notre Dame (both 9-0) stage a showdown in South Bend with the 'Fighting Irish' prevailing 31-24. The Irish go to number one but lose the following weekend to Boston College and Florida State will win the national championship with a victory over Nebraska in the Orange Bowl...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

1920] Here come de judge: Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis is elected baseball's first commissioner which brings a smile to Shorty Long's face wherever he is...

1931] A 'Nessie' sighting: The first known photo of the 'Loch Ness Monster' is taken...

1940] Premiered on this date: "Fantasia", not the singer, the Walt Disney masterpiece...

1948] Guilty as charged: Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other WWII Japanese leaders are sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal...1996] Jonathan Schmitz, 26, is convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Scott Amedure, a gay man who'd revealed a crush on Schmitz on a "Jenny Jones" TV show. Schmitz is serving a 20-25 year prison term...1997] Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Yousef is serving a sentence of life without parole...2004] Scott Peterson is sentenced to death for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay. Peterson remains on death row...

1954] Closed for renovations: Ellis Island closes after processing more than 20 million immigrants since opening in New York Harbor in 1892...

1987] AIDS ban banned: The AMA issues a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person has AIDS or is HIV-positive...

1993] "Happy Trails": H.R. Haldeman, a former Nixon White House chief of staff, dies of undisclosed causes at 67...

1940] Debuted on this date: The Jeep, manufactured for the war effort...

1972] 'Happy Trails': Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers) is killed in a motorcycle accident one year and 13 days after Duane Allman met the same fate - and just 3 blocks away. Oakley was 24...2004] Palestinian leader, controversial Yasser Arafat dies in Paris at 75. Israel does not sing 'Happy Trails'...

1984] The gift that keeps on giving: President Ronald Reagan accepts the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a gift to the nation from the Vietnam Memorial Fund...

1986] Wedding Bells: Sperry Rand and Burroughs walk down the aisle with their baby "Unisys" becoming the second largest computer company...

1993] Dedication Day II: A bronze statue is dedicated in Washington (D.C.) to honor more than 11,000 American women who served in the Vietnam War...

1996] The Wall that heals: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund unveils "The Wall that Heals", a half-scale replica of the memorial that will tour communities throughout the U.S...

1954] Dedicated to the ones we love: The Iwo Jima Memorial is dedicated in Arlington (VA)...

1969] Debuted on this date: 'Sesame Street' on PBS...

1975] Down with the ship: The ore-hauling ship Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm in Lake Superior with all 29 crew members on board (leading to the hit by Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" or as one CBS-FM caller asked: "Can you play the 'Wreck of Ella Fitzgerald?")...

1980] Cabnapping: CBS-TV network anchor Dan Rather claims he was kidnapped in a cab but it turns out that Rather refused to pay the driver for the ride (leading to the R.E.M hit: "What's the cab fare Kenneth?")...

1982] Memorialized: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is opened in Washington (D.C.)...

1984] Comeback Terps: Backup Maryland QB Frank Reich stages one of the greatest comebacks in college football history, throwing 6 TD passes in the 2nd half and overcoming a 31-0 deficit as the Terps beat Miami 42-40...

1993] With malice toward none: John Wayne Bobbitt is acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife Lorena Bobbitt (a.k.a. "The blade") who is later acquitted of malicious wounding of her husband. Apparently cutting off one's genitals is not malicious enough in Virginia...

Friday, November 7, 2008

1938] Kristallnacht: Nazi troops and sympathizers destroy and loot Jewish buinesses, burn synagogues and kill 91 Jews. They also round up 25,000 in an event known as 'Kristallnacht' or 'Night of Broken Glass' (11/9)...

1953] Supes Rule: Somehow the Supreme Court upholds a 1922 ruling that major league baseball does not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws (11/9). Were there 9 justices named Ito???

1960] Election daze: Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeats Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. The age of 'Camelot' dawns (11/8)...1962] Nixon who fails in his bid to become Governor of California, tells reporters, "You won't have me to kick around anymore." (11/7)...1967] Carl Stokes becomes the first black mayor of a major city (Cleveland) (11/7)...2000] Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first first lady to win public office by winning a Senate seat from NY (11/7)...

1965] Lights out: The great northeast blackout turns the lights out in 9 states and two provinces of Canada. It affects 25 million people for more than 13 hours (11/9)...

1968] 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E': Cynthia Powell Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon after 6 years of marriage (11/8)...1982] Liz Taylor chalks up divorce number 7. John Warner is the latest victim (11/7)...

1970] Record breaker: New Orleans placekicker Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his kicking foot, kicks a record setting 63-yard field goal (11/8). In 1998 Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos ties Dempsey with his 63-yard boot, no doubt aided by Denver's mile-high altitude...

1989] Wall? What wall?: Happy Germans dance on top of the Berlin Wall as Communist East Germany opens its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the west (11/9)...For more on November 7 - 9:

Thursday, November 6, 2008

1869] Tee for two: Rutgers beats Princeton 6-4 at New Brunswick (NJ) in the first college football game. There were 25 players on each side, touchdowns were worth one point and the game resembled soccer more than football...

1935] The birth of FM: Edwin H. Armstrong announces the development of FM broadcasting. Bless you Edwin H. Armstrong...

1956] Election Day results: President Dwight David Eisenhower is re-elected with a victory over Adlai E. Stevenson...2001] Michael Bloomberg defeats Mark Green in the New York City mayoral election...2005] Bloomberg is re-elected, beating Fernando Ferrer and because of his arrogance, Bloomberg will be eligible for a third term in 2009...

1967] Premiered on this date: Phil Donahue begins his TV talk show in Dayton (OH) and stays on the air for over 25 years with it...

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

1895] Patented: George B. Selden of Rochester (NY) receives the first U.S. patent for an automobile...

1935] Premiered on this date: The game of Monopoly is introduced by Parker Brothers...

1940] Election results: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented 3rd term but will be the last president to do so by a new law that limits presidents to two terms...1946] 29-year old Boston Democrat John F. Kennedy is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...1968] Republican Richard M. Nixon wins the presidency over VP Hubert H. Humphrey and George Wallace...1996] Voters return Bill Clinton to the White House for a second term as Clinton beats Dole...

1981] Busted: Former Miami Dolphin running back Mercury Morris is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and possession of cocaine...

1982] Put it in the books: The Nets put the Cleveland Cavaliers in the record books when they hand the Cavs their 24th consecutive loss, 99-91...

1990] Gunned down: Jewish Defense League Rabbi Meir Kahane, 58, is shot to death after a speech in Manhattan. His assassin, an Egyptian, is later sentenced to life in prison. Many believe Kahane was the first victim of Al Qaida...

1994] The new champ is the old champ: George Foreman becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champ at 45 by knocking out Michael Moorer in the 10th round...

1994] Former presidential announcement: Former President Ronald Reagan discloses he has Alzheimer's disease...

1998] Former presidential offspring: A study shows strong genetic evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child by his slave, Sally Hemmings...

Monday, November 3, 2008

1961] Batday: The Boston Patriots beat the Dallas Texans 28-21 at Braves Field when a fan sneaks onto the field and bats away Dallas QB Cotton Davidson's pass into the end zone as time runs out. The play stands, the Patriots win (we love these endings especially when the home team wins. Remember when that convict on work patrol cleared a spot on the field for a winning field goal ? Then there's the "tuck rule" imposed to favor Tom Brady in a big game against Oakland. We love this stuff...

1979] Wedding Bells: James Taylor and Carly Simon tie the knot in Carly's Manhattan apartment. Sadly they separate in 1982 and divorce in 1983...

1986] Breaking the story: A Lebanese magazine breaks the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, which exposes the Iran-Contra affair...

1988] Breaking the nose: Geraldo Rivera breaks his nose in an on-camera brawl with skinheads. I didn't know who to root for in this fight...

1992] Two big winners on Election Day: Bill Clinton is elected our 42nd President, defeating President George H.W. Bush (and) Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun becomes the 1st black woman elected to the U.S. Senate...

1994] Guilty as charged: Susan Smith is arrested for drowning her two young sons, 9 days after claiming the children had been kidnapped. She's still serving life without parole in prison...

1999] Guilty as charged II: Aaron McKinney is convicted of murder in the beating of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. McKinney and Russell Henderson are each serving life in prison for the 1998 murder...

2004] A political first: Hamid Karzai is declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election...

2005] Scooter is busted: VP Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby pleads not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. Libby is convicted and sentenced to 30-months in prison but 'W' commutes his sentence...For more on November 3rd: CLICK:

About Me

Mel Phillips Now & Then is more Now. The Then always follows the Now. Prior to starting 'Remembers' in 2005 and 'Now & Then' on April 7, 2008 I enjoyed a multi-media career which included being one of the Bill Drake program directors. I was involved in the programming of such legendary stations as WOR-FM, WXLO-FM, WNBC, WRKO AM & FM and KQV. I was also General Manager of Hooper Radio, played disc jockey in markets such as Tampa, Nashville, Norfolk and Atlantic City and enjoyed marketing success in syndicated radio for several companies including ABC, MJI and United Stations. My background also includes the music business where I promoted such diverse CBS acts as The Clash, Gloria Estefan, Loverboy, Judas Priest, George Michael & Julio Iglesias. In Special Programming at WCBS-FM I wrote and produced numerous specials and interviewed some of the biggest recording stars. In addition to this post I'm a regular contributor to Radio Daily News. My wife Diane and I reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and I'm very proud of my children, Robert Phillips, Lynn Phillips Brough and granddaughters Allyson and Amy...